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Commented in 5 reasons why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity
As someone who helps out people with their liberation from proprietary software (read: I install Linux distro's on their laptops and PC's and give them a nice headstart by teaching them the basics and essentials of the respective distro's), I am seeing a new trend: the SaaS (Software as a Service) doesn't go down as good as Microsoft (and Apple) want. Most of the people realise, finally, that in principle their machine is not theirs anymore in that way. To be more specific: according to Microsoft Windows User Agreement (since the haydays of Windows 95) it never was, but now it is more obvious with cloud services. It has become a more important reason to switch for people.
Another big reason is simple economics: people do not want (or can't) pay for all the online services and also, people want to use their machines for longer than anticipated by hardware producers and accountants. "Every three years buying new equipment is good for the books" is a long time mantra, which I always found a bit peculiar, because writing things off of your taxes is letting society pay for your costs as company. It is also far from durable or environmentally responsible. Hardware producers design their products also with obsolesence in mind, which is nice for their coffers, but not for the environment and/or the budgets of users.
And about the article itself: I understand the reasoning behind seeing Android and Chrome OS as a Linux version, but it needs to be nuanced: only the kernels of both OS's are originating from Linux kernels and that's about it. Most of the software that runs on it is proprietary and has hardly anything to do with Linux or Open Source. For the rest it was a nice read and I see articles about Year of the Desktop as a nice utopian tradition. Utopian, because in this neoliberal world of commercialising everything I do not see Linux distro's rule the consumer world. It already does so in the back end of it all: as far as I know, all the fastest supercomputers run some version/distro of Linux and pretty much the entire internet runs on it. :-)
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Commented in Secureboot can kiss my ass
I so hate Microsoft. Linux is on both my machines.
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Commented in Microsoft Azure introduces Radius, an open-source development platform for multi-cloud computing
I trust Microsoft as far as I can fling a bull elephant.
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Commented in The Windows desktop is dying
But it’s not because of Macs or Linux – it's because Microsoft wants your Windows desktop to live in the cloud.
I have been reading about this plan for years. It will be a fee for service...Your renting it,it's no longer yours.
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Commented in Open Source May Yet Eat Google’s and OpenAI's AI Lunch
I want them to eat Microsoft and Aple's lunch too.
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Commented in You think patching Windows is a pain? Try patching a Mars rover millions of miles away
They even have their own Linux distro! And no Microsoft things are found on their website. I like that. :-)
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Commented in Microsoft begs people to stick to Edge after Chrome download
The reason I use Linux distros is what I'd say to Microsoft,if I could: "My computer,my rules."
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Commented in Microsoft Wants ChatGPT to Control Robots Next
Of course they do,so they will have yet another revenue stream based on their buggy software. Do you really think the world wants Microsoft sucking up their money?
Why do you think robotics and the internet itself and NASA all run on Linux?
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Commented in Azure Went Dark
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Commented in Microsoft mulling cheap PCs supported by ads, subscriptions
When they are decent machines, buy it and before starting it up, stick your favourite distro on USB in the USB-port. Then boot up to the BIOS, put starting up from USB as option 1, save & exit and let it boot from USB. Install your favourite distro and done!! Cheap machine with a good OS and no Microsoft things on it. :-)
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Commented in Who Uses Bing, Anyway? 10 Surprising Ways You Probably Do
I've known for a while that DDG uses bing data among others. Although it is supposed to have it's own indexing and not pass your search back to bing/Microsoft. Hah!
For a while now I have been using searx. The random searx redirector is fun and often gives you interesting results. Results that aren't influenced by your search history and AI.
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Commented in Who Uses Bing, Anyway? 10 Surprising Ways You Probably Do
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Commented in DuckDuckGo slammed by Brave CEO over supposed Microsoft deal
Geez, what's a non-techie like me supposed to make of this. I did not even know DuckDuckGo had an agreement with Microsoft. I know that Ecosia does. Ecosia is very transparent about that. Unfortunately, Bing-based searches are not as good as Google-based searches.
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Commented in Everything Elon Musk wants to change about Twitter
Isn't the internet always social and depending on interaction? What's not to like about social media are monopolies of the keyplayers, I think. And I question, for years, the amount of users those keyplayers announce they have. More users mean more advertisement income and reason enough to add a little spice to the actual numbers. The longer I am not using Instagram, Facebook and so on, the more I RE-discover the actual internet with a lot of "substitutes" to the mainstream outlets. And good heavens, there are actual sites that function and blossom without any algorithms or other beatmakers. ;-) Even way better technologies, as in peer-to-peer distributed sites and content or, hold on for this one, actual ad free websites that make a profit by paying their users and taking their (fair) share of the tokens that are traded (Odysee).
The big ass monopolies are on their way down, I guess, just by seeing how fast decentralisation is starting to get a grip on the internet. More and more tools (Signal) and sites like Pixelfed or Mastodon are popping up and growing really quickly. I like that a lot. It's never gonna be like "the old days" again, but there's definitely a renewed and really improved internet for all on its' way. From that point of view, and experience, Musk has made his worst investment to date by buying Twitter (with borrowed money and other forms of debt and by selling some of his shares of the companies he "founded" (read: bought out)).
Like with MySpace and others that are long gone, the current dominant players will deminish if they do not get a hold of that decentralisation and other technological developments, which they will be hesitant towards, since that also means a loss of power, besides income. It's like with banks versus crypto and trading apps: old versus new. And guess what? Old is already going down, kicking and screaming. But this will not go over really peacefully, we're talking about a lot of money and power here that is shifting towards new players , innovators (real ones) and visionaires that do not copycat old shit and call it theirs (I see you Microsoft and Apple). :-)
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Commented in Exclusive: An Xbox Game Pass 'Family Plan' is on the way
Soon enough,renting will apply to Microsoft's OS,so not only will you be paying for games every month,but you will be paying to use Windows itself as well..Soon,we will be paying a monthly fee to piss in a pot.
The "smart" toilet enters the chat.
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Commented in Apple Made an Additional $6.5 Billion USD by No Longer Providing Accessories With New iPhones
This is so true..What's even more pathetic about your observation,is so many people do not even know,much less care that they are being screwed over. Once an OS is on my box,I see it as mine. No one micromanages me,no one forces me to use a certain browser and no one has the right to keep my ad blocker or anything else disabled. I don't come into your home,slap a Linux distro,or Free BSD on your computer,then do all thee other stuff I want and don't allow you to change it..But somehow,Apple,Google and Microsoft feel they have the right to do this to me. Ummm,nope.
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Commented in Apple Made an Additional $6.5 Billion USD by No Longer Providing Accessories With New iPhones
Those fanbois haven't read the users end agreement very well, because it is not some certificate of ownership, but an agreement/permission to use the software on that piece of hardware. Both OS's are in fact leased to you and stay property of Apple or Microsoft, which renders any consumer right about the software insignificant. Their argument is simple: you agreed on our terms and they state that you, the end user, are under our control and we do whatever the hell we want with our property. Thing is: that's a fact since the inception of their users end agreements and go back many, many years.
You have a strong point on the paying to go online idea. It's already here, in a way, except for the paying part. Without being online it is damn hard to install, update or upgrade the OS's. Also: to do that, you need an account with those companies. Lots of users do not even care about that, they simply do it, because that's easy. And with my experience on helping people with their computers, they can't even give one damn reason why such a dick-move is even close to fair from the perspective of the user. Besides it being convenient, that is.
Things change as soon as they see on their hardware an OS running that doesn't do that and that doesn't send tonnes of telemetry and other data towards servers they can't have access to or even something close to an insight on what's being used or taken. When they see the difference in ease of use, privacy and actual ownership of software, those dear people still need time to recover from the years of being fooled in front of their eyes or even conceptualise what choice and ownership is.
I think that's so sad and hearing people even defend the ways they are used and abused, just for profit, shows how indoctrinated and propagandised they are. Spreading Linux, FreeBSD and all other open source software sometimes feels like an uphill battle, but one laptop or desktop at a time it will grow. And the more people understand the ways they are screwed over, the more people will leave those asshole companies behind. And the sad fact about it is that it's not just with OS's or other software, it's the same screw-overs in other parts of life also. Bank accounts, rent, buying food, borrowing, voting, education, just to name a few, are just as mindblowingly set up to screw people over in ways they can't imagine.
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Commented in Apple Made an Additional $6.5 Billion USD by No Longer Providing Accessories With New iPhones
Same here. I've slapped Linux distros onto hapless computers for almost sixteen years. As you noted.they also price gouge up one side and down the other, and have taken the term "walled garden" to further heights than Windows could ever dream of. I have an IPhone and the only reason I have it is it was a gift. I only use it as a phone,since I have Linux Mint on this lappy and UbuntuMATE on my tower.
I also have an Androud tablet,which also lives to micromanage it's users. I just wish there was a way to get a Linux distro on it,but the good folks at Linux Internationals have said that won't happen.
It's sad tjat the fanbois of Apple and Microsoft have no clue how little control they have over their own OS's,but then again,most people don't even think in those terms and just think:"OoOOHhh, shiny!!!"
Just wait till these two companies start monthly fees to even go on line...Now that will be interesting to watch.
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Commented in Windows 11 will soon be closed off to anyone without internet
Because of course! Microsoft just cant stick to tradition.
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Commented in Opinion: It’s Not a Console War, It’s a Content War
Microsoft has always played the long game.
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Commented in The creators of Wallace & Gromit are making a ‘mad, open world’ game
If this ever comes to pass,as usual,us Linux users won't be able to play it cause only Apple and Microsoft users are important.
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Commented in Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows
And people say the new Microsoft is playing nicely with competitors now? It's the same as it always has been.
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Commented in Broken tech is causing a mounting environmental disaster. It's time for tech companies to give us the right to repair our stuff instead of needing to throw it away.
I use refurbished computer's so they stay out of land fills.
I remove Windows and put Ubuntu on the hard drive.
If a bit stops working, I pay someone to replace the faulty part. No permission required.
I've done this for years.
Sad to say,once Microsoft forces everyone to W11,millions of computers will go into land fills.
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Commented in Windows 11 tried to make Chromebooks irrelevant, but Google just destroyed its efforts
Which was Google's intent.
this also means that almost all new applications and any updated applications will be out of reach for those using Microsoft’s new operating system
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Commented in Microsoft says it has never made a profit from the sale of an Xbox console | VGC
When Microsoft says it never made a profit on a product, this song starts to play.